Ocult Books

Treatise on the Great Art ( 1898 )
By Antoine Joseph Pernety

He who seeks in Nature another element of Fire,
is ignorant of what the sun and light are.
It is placed in the Moist Radical as its proper seat.
With animals it seems to have established its chief domicile in the heart, which communicates it to all parts, as the sun does to all the Universe.

The Fire of Nature is her first agent.
It reduces the germs from potentiality to actuality.
As soon as it no longer acts, all apparent movement and all vital action ceases.
The principle of movement is light, and movement is the cause of heat.
This is why the absence of the sun and of light has such a great effect upon bodies.
Heat penetrates to the interior of the most opaque and hardest substances, and animates the hidden and torpid nature.
Light penetrates only transparent bodies, and its property is to manifest the perceptible accidents of the composites.
Thus the sun is the first natural and universal agent. 

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